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Transcription

Merchants and as hee hath heard hath bin soe tyme out of mynde) for them to transferr and assigne over goods shippes debts due,
either by bond, bill of Exchange, or otherwise, one to an other in payment of
such summes as they owe to those they make such transferranses or assignments
to, which transferranses of Assignements are usually among merchants accepted
of and held goods in lawe to discharge them one from an other, and it would as hee
beleeveth bee a great hinderanse to merchants in their trade if they should not
allowe of them And further hee cannot depose./

To the 5th hee saith hee well knoweth that the sayd Christopher Boone is an
Inhabitant of this Cittie of London and a subiect of this Commonwealth this hee
knoweth for that hee this deponent is at present his servant in house And saith
hee beleeveth for the reasons aforesayd that the sayd Boone hath made reall and sufficient
satisfaction to the sayd Goldsmith for the silver and Cutcheneale arlate, and is by reason
of his acceptance of the sayd Transferense thereof made to him by the sayd Goldsmith
become the true lawfull and sole Owner and Proprietor of the sayd silver and Cutcheneale,
and cannot as hee beleeveth revert upon the sayd Goldsmith or recover any other
satisfaction from him for the two hundred thousand Ryalls plate which the
sayd Goldsmith ought him before the makeing the sayd Transferense And further
to this article hee cannot depose/.

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee is now an Apprentice to the
Interrogate Mr Christopher Boone, and soe hath bin for some moneths last
past And saith hee hath noe relation to Adrian Goldsmith, nor
hath any Interest in the clayme Interrogate, and cometh to bee a wittnes by the
meanes of his Master Mr Christopher Boone, who knowing that this deponent
resided in the yeare 1654 in Spaine with the fforesayd Anthony Upton the sayd Mr
Boones Corresponedent, required him to testifie the truth in this cause, and saith it
will bee noe benefitt to him in case the goods Interrogate bee restored./

To the 2 hee saith hee was not present at the makeing of the Accompts betweene the
sayd Boone and Goldsmith, neither were the sayd Boone and Goldsmith as hee beleeveth present at it them
selves, but the same (as hee hath heard the sayd Anthony Upton affirme) was made by
him the sayd Upton as Agent for the sayd Boone and the sayd de Loon and Panninque
as Agents for the sayd Goldsmith And further hee cannot answere/

To the last hee saith hee was not present at the passing of the Instrument
of Transferense betweene Mr Boone and Mr Goldsmith, but beleeveth the same
was made at Antwerpe where the sayd Goldsmith dwelleth, and verily beleeveth and
is perswaded in his conscience for the reasons aforesayd that the sayd Transferense
was reall and not colourable And further cannot answere/

Ben Bathurst [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/